Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40b6dc69b00c1753…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.8 KB Created: 2020-08-17 15:11:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 996343d284ab04f4756aacd48010e032 SHA-1: 4b86ff00283ffeb4f4ef6589c45efc5898a1307e SHA-256: 40b6dc69b00c175380df81dc0d37130c6d295e748f0c193c09e81fae562eec35
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a link that redirects to a malicious URL, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a movie download lure and the malicious URL itself. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm or distribution network. The SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE heuristic suggests a common tactic to bypass gateway security by instructing the user to decrypt a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=anarkali+malayalam+movie++utorrent In PDF document text
    • http://files.destinationtravelco.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681209/ba21152aefb73c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sokadamo.newlightwater.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607712/1296822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://���������In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7205/2643/files/39789141560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8858/4605/files/canon_eos_rebel_t7i_800d_for_dummies_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2807/7992/files/vudekadezikuzapum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8488/0798/files/sword_art_online_minecraft_server.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6966/1589/files/90906545855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7176/6695/files/synthesis_of_nalidixic_acid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6891/4838/files/blood_type_o_positive_weight_loss_diet_plan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3702/3656/files/silabus_biologi_sma_ktsp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7433/8472/files/78567253040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pujofupokutesigitugut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0417/4233/files/50159900695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/37741658126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000145a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145A7 4868 bytes
SHA-256: 3590546650837eadc1d680d3fd11522ad55f0f9632578599ed35a5705537122f
font_01_sfnt_off00015622.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15622 17512 bytes
SHA-256: 15c21a18b557726b5637611d30b448dca46c3a99e5463ff72de01cb644a1585d
font_02_sfnt_off00018bfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18BFB 16384 bytes
SHA-256: b6b7f901ace08fc5bcdac8827c351b340e918a7fe51572d7bc4ba752988caa76